"I don't want to see Congress going out cowboying this on their own, I'd like to do it with the president,” Kennedy told reporters while discussing possible U.S. actions to punish the Saudi kingdom if officials ordered the killing of the U.S.-based journalist. Khashoggi disappeared earlier this month after entering the Saudi embassy in Turkey and is presumed dead.

“We can condemn their conduct - in this case Saudi Arabia - without blowing up the Middle East, and without destroying our ability to talk with them,” Kennedy asserted before listing several possible punishments.

“You could expel diplomats, you could do a U.N. resolution, you could curtail arms sales, you could do sanctions on individuals, I don't know the appropriate conduct,” Kennedy said before emphasizing that the president and Congress must be united and actions based on “U.S. values.”

A former New York Times reporter who was threatened by the George W. Bush and Obama administrations with jail for refusing to turn over sources for a 2006 book on Monday warned that President Trump poses an unprecedented threat to the freedom of the press.

The National Director of the left-leaning Working Families Party said in an interview that aired Monday on "Rising" that it is a "misassessment" to say that the Democratic Party moving too far to the left will ultimately hurt its candidates in elections.

Journalist Andy Ngo on Monday said that liberal politicians in Portland, Ore., are in a difficult position in dealing with the antifascist group antifa after clashes involving the group at a conservative rally on Saturday in the city.